"It's no one's fault,"? Amelda raised her voice and turned her gaze towards the guard standing in the doorway.

"Kim, take the day off" the guards left the dining hall after bowing in her direction.

The joyous laughter vanished away as silence occupied the hall.

"Is it true young master Noah that young master Ghost is a friend of House Kane? I heard from our spies that he has seen with Elder Walter at the auction house"

Samuel changed the topic to make the hall lively again. A few sounds of gasps could be heard in the hall. Most of the family members knew how hard it is to establish a connection with any of the Noble families in Royal land let alone becoming a friend of House Kane, one of the most powerful families in Royal land.

"Then he made an enemy out of House Fisher and probably House Oswen too" Alicia snickered. Every pair of eyes landed on her expecting an explanation for her statement. Diana's heart skipped a beat hearing her son has made an enemy out of two powerful families. If Noah pissed off any of the noble families, he had his family and Guardians to protect him but her other son had to face them alone. This made her motherly feelings to protect her son erupt in her heart. Two decades ago, she utterly failed as a mother, she wanted to redeem herself yet she wouldn't be able with Skyhall in her way. Until Skyhall exists, her son would always be in danger unless she never reveals the fact that Ghost is her own son.

Neither her family nor Ghost was strong enough to take on the Skyhall, she knew this and this was the only thing keeping her from reuniting with her son.

"I heard he and the daughter of the second Oswen brother have some bad blood between them. Hence, he made an enemy out of House Oswen"

"What's her name?" Andrews asked,

"Celina, Celina Oswen.Since he has reached the Core Formation stage, he would either fight Celina or her fiance, Alex, Alex Fisher. By allying with House Kane, the rival family of House Fisher, he is already on the bad side of House Fisher. Unless he loses to either of them, he would be in trouble with those families"? Alicia explained.

"Do you think either of them can defeat him in the championship tournament?" Natalia asked. Although Alicia didn't want to believe it, she thought either Celina or Alex would be able to defeat Ghost. In her mind, only Noah could defeat him among the same generation as Ghost.

"No. I saw each of them fight. They can't defeat him" said Noah, recalling the time when he fought with Ghost against the Core Formation beats inside the Nether Realm.

"If it wasn't for the stupid rule that guilds cannot compete in the championship tournaments, brother Noah would have defeated him," Maisy said as many of the family members nodded in agreement.

Rowena saw the uncertainty in Noah's eyes for the first time. Rowena trained with her little brother and she could tell that even though Noah was at the Body Strengthening stage level 10, he could beat anyone below Core Formation level 5 yet he seemed uncertain about defeating a Core Formation level 3 cultivator.

Diana heaved a sigh of relief thanking the rules preventing the guardian guild from competing in the tournaments. The last thing she wanted was her two sons fighting each other. If they were to face Skyhall in the future, her children must stand together rather than against each other.Ñ00v€l--ß1n hosted the premiere release of this chapter.

"Noah, do you think you can defeat him if you fought him in the tournament?" Rowena calmly asked.

"I'm not sure. I have a feeling that he hasn't shown the full extent of his power to the world yet. The tournament will be a good place to study him"

"If that's the case, I'm sure the Guardian guild is already putting up a file on him. Places like the Guardian guild dont like to deal with the unknown"

On top of that, this was the first time they saw her raise her voice at Noah.

Even Noah himself was stunned to hear her.

"Enough of this. Today's a celebration so let's celebrate" Amelda quickly tried to elevate the mood in the hall.

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Inside Peyton's manor, Xanali and Peyton were staring at a table full of documents.

"So Connor lost him?" Peyton creased her brows as Xanali shook her head.

"Ghost has been using teleportation scrolls to travel between kingdoms, Peyton. How could Connor follow him? However despite him using teleportation scrolls, I'd say Connor did a good job providing us with all this information on Ghost"

"Teleportation scrolls huh. I wonder where he is getting all those rare scrolls" Peyton rubbed her chin while Xanali put Michael's portrait next to the portrait of a question mark.

"Lucifer said he's giving the criminals two months. Ghost went into seclusion at the same time. Lucifer came just a few months after Ghost made his appearance at River Town. We don't know anything about him before he came to River Town" Xanali kept listing out facts to Peyton.

"Few days before Nightcrawler was killed by Lucifer, Ghost came to Flamefair" Xanali paused for a moment,

"Where are you going with this Xanali?"

"I think Ghost is working for Lucifer" Peyton just stared at all the documents at the table, pondering about what Xanali just said.

"Everything you said might be just a coincidence but, we can neither confirm it nor deny your doubt. I like your theory, we just need more solid proof" Peyton was desperate to find Lucifer so she could hunt him down. His accusation of them killing the nobles almost jeopardized the whole operation and brought down the wrath of a guardian captain.

"Allocate more resources to Connor and bring us the best teleportation expert in the guild. I want to know every move Ghost makes"

"As you wish. Also, I want to put a surveillance team around the Sunrise sect"

"Go ahead but be careful. A Soul Refiner is living there"

Xanali nodded with a smile. She then quickly stacked all the documents on the table neatly.

"Let me guess, you were invited to Noah's birthday party"